Jacqui Stockdale Australia

Biography
Jacqui Stockdale

Jacqui Stockdale is a Naarm/Melbourne-based contemporary artist known for her distinctive exploration of Australian history, folklore, and marginalised narratives. Her multidisciplinary practice spans photography, drawing, painting, collage and performance, incorporating elements of masquerade and ritual. Growing up in regional Victoria, Stockdale graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1990 where she currently lectures and is an MFA candidate. Her work is held in major collections worldwide. Stockdale's recent series, Angel at my Table, was awarded Best of the Melbourne Art Fair in 2024.


Notable exhibitions include,  Horse Girl Energy, Latrobe Regional Gallery,  2024, Beating About the Bush, Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2023; 20/20, the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Magic Object, 2016 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, AGSA; Theatre of the World, MONA; Alles Masquerade, Museum Rot, Germany; Todays/Tomorrow, Cape Town, South Africa, Living Rooms, by Robert Wilson, Louvre Museum, Paris; Outlands, Volta, Switzerland; and Wonderworks, Hong Kong. Her work has been acknowledged through major survey shows,  The Offering, Tweed Regional Gallery, 2023 and Familija, Benalla Art Gallery, 2016.


In 2012 Stockdale won the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize and was a recipient of Creative Australia Barcelona Studio in 2014. Collections include National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia and the Watermill Collection, USA. 


Jacqui has worked in collaboration with Yumi Umiumare and Melbourne Butoh Dance Collective, ButohOut, receiving a Green Room Award for Best Visual Design in 2022.  In 2018 the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Festival and Art Museum and Library ŌTA, Japan presented Join the Dots, a real time digital art project that brought together artist's Jacqui Stockdale and Nobumasa Takahashi.


ABC TV 'Artscape' Anatomy, Heart, directed by Amos Gebhardt, tells the story about Jacqui's muse was awarded Best Documentary at MIFF 2008. 

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